Isaiah
11-23-2004, 09:35 AM
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James Hurt
Historical Research and Narrative
There is a geography of American literature, a map of the places where, at one time or another, cultural forces seemed to focus and literature flourished: New England in the 1850s, the Midwest between 1900 and 1915, the South in the 1930s and '40s. African-American literature has such a geography, too, that includes Harlem in the 1920s and the various centers (New York, San Francisco, and the Chicago-Detroit nexus) of the black arts movement of the 1960s. Chicago, from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, was also the setting for a major efflorescence of African-American writing that in retrospect has come to be called the Black Chicago Renaissance...
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Peace!
Isaiah
James Hurt
Historical Research and Narrative
There is a geography of American literature, a map of the places where, at one time or another, cultural forces seemed to focus and literature flourished: New England in the 1850s, the Midwest between 1900 and 1915, the South in the 1930s and '40s. African-American literature has such a geography, too, that includes Harlem in the 1920s and the various centers (New York, San Francisco, and the Chicago-Detroit nexus) of the black arts movement of the 1960s. Chicago, from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, was also the setting for a major efflorescence of African-American writing that in retrospect has come to be called the Black Chicago Renaissance...
CLICK ADDRESS ABOVE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE.
Peace!
Isaiah